Features Dimensions: 36" x 8.625" / 8.975" (L x W) Wheelbase: 17.5" Kick Length: 7.5" Deck Weight: 1.68kg (8.625") / 1.72kg (8.875") Environment Suitability Steeps Parking Round Town Like its namesake from Buddhist legend, the Kanthaka is an agile, muscular, and loyal steed for any rider seeking a swift and exciting journey to double-kick freeride enlightenment. Blurring the lines between street skating and freeriding, the Kanthaka builds off contemporary skate design and brings rocker, functional and ergonomic wheel wells, and composite construction to create something innovative, versatile and unique.ROCKERThe Kanthaka features a gently rockered platform (enough to create a comfortable cradling interface for sliding but not so much as to disrupt the mechanics of ollies and other tricks) that transitions smoothly into the kicks. Rocker also slightly lowers your centre of gravity for enhanced stability.CONCAVEThe Kanthaka is designed with an elliptical concave profile. The concave near the centreline of the board is very shallow (but not completely flat) to minimize accidental flipping input on ollies. It ramps up gently near the rails to provide comfortable security and board awareness.INTEGRATED WHEEL WELLS/FLARESPronounced wheel wells flare above the top surface of the deck, increasing wheel clearance while also creating an ergonomic transition that provides lateral support and extra leverage in critical areas for your feet. To prevent these concave “hot spots” from hindering certain tricks, we maintained the flare amplitude necessary to provide the wheel clearance and ergonomics we wanted but squeezed the blending transitions away from the centre of the deck. The result is maximized real estate in the central standing platform, lateral support inside the bolts, tight pockets between the flares and the kicks, and excellent wheel clearance. SYMMETRICAL SHAPE To encourage switch riding and shuvit style tricks, the Kanthaka features a completely symmetrical profile from tip to tip. NOSE & TAIL KICKS The kicktails on the Kanthaka are designed to provide excellent leverage for slides and manoeuvrability. They extend from the standing platform at a relatively shallow angle to generate a quick and well balanced pop for the Kanthaka’s geometric combination of length, rocker, and wheelbase. The nose and tail share the same profile shape, but the nose is slightly steeper than the tail, allowing for a more concave pocket for levelling out ollies or a nominally higher contact angle for popping tricks or bluntslides. FLEX Solid for speed and crisp for pop, the Kanthaka’s bamboo and fibreglass construction is stiff without feeling overbuilt. We designed the board with a very minute amount of longitudinal flex: just enough to soak up some road vibration and help keep the ride smooth. GRIPTAPEThe griptape pattern on the Kanthaka provides functional coverage on the kicks, standing platform, and rails for reliable traction and control in all applications. There are subtle pickaxe cutouts designed to assist the griptape in conforming to the dished surface curvature in the pockets outside of the bolts, where the combination of wheel well flares and kicktail transitions generate enhanced lateral support for your feet. GRAPHICSThe Kanthaka graphic is a reproduction of an early Colonial quilt reflected in the glacier glasses of a Tibetan Sherpa as he dives into a high-elevation emerald lake.
